Young Mexicans make inexpensive comfortable furniture from old car tires
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Until the beginning of the twentieth century, when horses were used mainly for transportation, the central streets of large cities were covered with a thick layer of horse manure. With the disappearance of horses on the roads, the problems did not diminish, and the horses that replaced horses now became so common and largely pollute the environment.
Cars emit harmful substances into the atmosphere, they represent a strong source of noise, and old car tires literally filled dumps.
Young people from Mexico, extremely concerned about the state of the environment, decided to fight the polluters in their own way. A group of students began to use used tires and make from them quite comfortable furniture, besides at reasonable prices.
In a number of countries, old car tires are recycled and become valuable raw materials, but in Mexico, the industry involved in the processing of old tires is almost none, and in the country annually about 40 million tires fall on the landfill.
The leader of the new project, which brought together all the people not indifferent to the problem, Eduardo Rivera Alvarado said that the old tires represent a real threat. First of all, due to accumulations of rainwater in them, they become an excellent place for the reproduction of mosquitoes and other insects that carry the infection. In addition, the smoke that forms when burning tires, increases the level of greenhouse gases and is extremely harmful to human health.
Eduardo Rivera with like-minded people began to use old tires as raw materials for making furniture. In addition to tires, students use other materials, in particular wood, because young people not only get rid of waste, but also create an ergonomic product that would satisfy the needs of customers in full.
As Rivera noted, the goal of the environmental project is to attract regular customers. The project, according to young Mexicans, will help significantly improve the state of the environment.
Not far from the capital of Mexico in Boca del Rio, a similar method of processing old tires is being carried out by the owner of a car tire company, Luis Gonzalez Rivas. The businessman takes a direct part in the trade in goods that pollute the environment and claims that making a profit is not his goal, he seeks to draw people's attention to environmental issues and recycling. Initially, the idea of making furniture was only to provide customers with chairs and chairs, but the first samples were far from attractive. After a while, Gonzalez began to make various accessories for chairs, as well as flower pots and other products. In his work he used plastic, paint, slings, vinyl and other available tools.
As the businessman says, the cost of a chair from an old tire goes from 400 to 500 pesos, which is almost double the price of a conventional plastic chair. But, despite this, Luis Gonzalez does not intend to stop his hobby.